diff --git a/.changeset/dull-masks-occur.md b/.changeset/dull-masks-occur.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..076f4dfef4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/dull-masks-occur.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-react': minor
+---
+
+`entityRouteParams` now also accepts entity refs, and can help with encoding the resulting parameters.
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/report.api.md b/plugins/catalog-react/report.api.md
index 1e5735bd86..f7673e1bd8 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/report.api.md
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/report.api.md
@@ -524,12 +524,20 @@ export interface EntityRefPresentationSnapshot {
 }
 
 // @public
-export function entityRouteParams(entity: Entity): {
+export function entityRouteParams(
+  entityOrRef: Entity | CompoundEntityRef | string,
+  options?: EntityRouteParamsOptions,
+): {
   readonly kind: string;
   readonly namespace: string;
   readonly name: string;
 };
 
+// @public
+export type EntityRouteParamsOptions = {
+  encodeParams?: boolean;
+};
+
 // @public
 export const entityRouteRef: RouteRef<{
   name: string;